Dubai Is Planning An Epic Comebackhttp://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-resumes-construction-dreams-2013-2/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:07:14 -0500Adam Taylorhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51247a4f6bb3f78e41000005Irfan AhmedWed, 20 Feb 2013 02:25:03 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51247a4f6bb3f78e41000005
A flop in fact! And, that’s why perhaps Abdu Dhabi Group is eager to put its eggs into some other baskets as it revealed its plan to invest nearly half ($45 billion) of what Dubai’s debt in its port-competitor-to-be Karachi and other cities of Pakistan. However, comparing Dubai with bubble is an overstatement. Its shopping industry is progressing like anything else, giving a boost to online shopping and discount platforms such as <a href="http://www.groupon.ae" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.groupon.ae</a>, <a href="http://www.tipadeal.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.tipadeal.com</a> and others to the benefits of consumers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bd192eab8eaa947000001DubaiHotel.aeWed, 13 Feb 2013 12:46:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bd192eab8eaa947000001
People forget it is not the West, it is where East meets the West !, there are some amazing hotels in Dubaihttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/511b7e63eab8eaba0a000013Retail ConstructionWed, 13 Feb 2013 06:52:03 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511b7e63eab8eaba0a000013
The Musical has an epic one during Paul Keating and John . After Vaarsuvius points out a major flaw in the plan, Belkar utterly fails to come up with a comeback.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119e85d69beddbe55000014failaka-comTue, 12 Feb 2013 01:59:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119e85d69beddbe55000014
Yes, the place is coming back.... malls are jam-packed with residents and tourists from all over the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and the rest of the Stans. Optimism is high here again. Real estate is coming back, but slowly... the properties that are selling well are high-end or bought to rent for rental income.
Here's an article from Bloomberg on suitcases of cash coming in to buy properties:
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-28/dubai-suitcases-of-cash-circumvent-loan-rules-mortgages.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-28/dubai-suitcases-of-cash-circumvent-loan-rules-mortgages.html</a>
If you look at the trends in Dubai you will see that the money coming here is the money that has no better place to go. Who wants Irani money? Who would accept a suitcase of cash from an Afghani? Where can wealthy Indians and Pakistanis rush off on a short notice and be in a better place that would give them entry visas? Where can all the Saudis go to drink and buy whores galore?
Dubai's secret sauce is booze and whores. One you have this infrastructure in place (night clubs, bars, beach bars, whore bars, fancy wine bars) the rest of the infrastructure falls into place, easy visa access, close proximity to basket-case countries, then you have a place where these people want to go... so next you need to build up fancy hotels, clean up the beaches, let women wear bikinis, hold high-end sporting events.... etc. All of a sudden, Dubai becomes a place where these people aspire to live.... because they have nowhere else to go. Where can a poor Egyptian go with the hope of having a better life? America and Europe don't want him.... ditto for Pakistanis, Iranis, Uzbekistanis, Jordanians, Syrias... the list goes on.....
.... it's all about booze and whores...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119bce4eab8eace37000002jamesxxxxxxMon, 11 Feb 2013 22:54:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119bce4eab8eace37000002
A) They can probably find a middle ground for religious tolerance. There are very, very few issues that are really in the way.
B) Issues of human rights have little to do with Sharia. They way they treat the foreign help, as slaves - this is the worst problem - and it's nothing to do with Islam - just crude Arab culture. Sharia can be for the most part perfectly integrated with modern values.
B) A 'corrupt' Las Vegas? Uhmm ... you realize Vegas was started by the Jewish mob (Bugsy Siegel) as a land of sin and corruption ... and that nothing has changed ... to imply that Vegas is not corrupt ... that's pretty funny ...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119ba576bb3f76b0500001bB.SubuMon, 11 Feb 2013 22:43:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5119ba576bb3f76b0500001b
well i work in Dubai .i must add i like Dubai.
there is only one thing that gets Dubai growing.That is OPM.
i.e other peoples money.
As long as tourists come here to throw money Dubai will grow.
But buliding a replica of TajMahal i dont agree with this.
why try to copy cat other actual things,
it is like the artifial life in Dubai where everything is available for a price.
Right now emirates and etihad are buying into indian airlines and getting more indians to from india to europe and America this is also helping Dubai a lot.
As long as they get cheap labour from Asia to clean and maintain thier gardens night clubs Dubai will come up.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51197f8a69bedd6957000016DubaierMon, 11 Feb 2013 18:32:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51197f8a69bedd6957000016
OMG, I read the comments and they are so funny. You don't know shit about Dubai and you still talk as if you were living there. There is freedom in Dubai, it has nothing to do with a strict islamic country like Saudi Arabia or Qatar.
Please, if you don't know anything about Dubai except from BBC or CNN, just don't comment. I live there, I know it much better than you. Dubai is recovering, Dubai respects their women whatever you think. I'm Christian, I live very well in Dubai. Just go there and you'll see the nightlife there, much crazier than any night in London or New York.
I'm sure people who commented are the same who say "Americans are manipulated by Fox News". Yeah & you are manipulated too. Don't be jaleous. USA is sinking and the Middle East is at the top. Sorry for you.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511975d2eab8eaa61b000007SDNGMon, 11 Feb 2013 17:50:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511975d2eab8eaa61b000007
Biggest shopping mall... Yawn
Four times bigger Taj Mahal... Yeah right...
They apparently did not get the point of their failure: niggerlike spending habits aren't going to compensate the primitive islamic laws that they have there hanging like a Damocles sword over foreign residents. Create a really free, libertarian enclave with MORE actual freedom than elsewhere (like legalized this and that) and maybe they'll be onto something.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51196605eab8ea0472000012Don LoganMon, 11 Feb 2013 16:43:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51196605eab8ea0472000012
Dubai is a well-polished turd. Like Vegas, but without the fun and gambling. Hate the place.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51195221ecad041c5100001aDumperMon, 11 Feb 2013 15:18:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51195221ecad041c5100001a
Overusing the word "epic" once again makes me want to do a Number Two on your living room floor, Adam.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51194cc06bb3f7b139000003rufusmcbufusMon, 11 Feb 2013 14:55:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51194cc06bb3f7b139000003
Dubai..pheh..buncha fatties. Even fatter than Walmart America.
-rufushttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/511949f46bb3f7d63200000fits_a_shameMon, 11 Feb 2013 14:43:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511949f46bb3f7d63200000f
Number one for conservative Muslim oil sheiks, certainly. It's also one of the most inhospitable cities on the planet for women, and the police system is one of the worst civil rights violators in the world. Until Dubai decouples itself from Sharia law it will never have the power, influence, or global reach that business centers presently have in Asia, Europe, and the US. The city is in a deep identity crisis. It must decide if it wants to maintain it's current status as a corrupt version of Las Vegas for the middle east, or if it wants to take its rightful place as a peer among other global cities that value social and religious tolerance.